Beet Seeds

Beet Seeds for sale. Heirloom Beet Seed also called garden beet or table beet. Beets are commonly refered to as blood beet, red beet and golden beet. This is our category for heirloom beet seed (Beta vulgaris) offered in a variety of colors and shapes. We have the hard to find heirloom early blood turnip beet and heirloom sugar beet seed. Heirloom beet seed is a great vegetable choice for your organic sustainable living, self sufficient lifestyle needs. In most areas of the country you can start planting your heirloom beet seed four weeks before last frost. It is easy to have a continuous havest all season.  You can make consectutive plantings of beet seed every week or two all summer. That way they will mature at different times. You can plant your last beet seed plantings about 3 weeks before the first frost in your area. This will give the plant time to grow before frost hits. Once beets are established, usually around 3 weeks, they are very cold hardy. Being a multi purpose vegetable makes beets extra appealing to the self sufficient gardener. You can continually harvest the leafy tops of beets to use as greens as they grow. Just harvest the outer leaves, leaving the center to grow. Beet greens can be sauteed, steamed or boiled and taste similar to spinach but are milder and have a more appealing texture. If you are into raw foods, you can harvest young beet greens to use raw in salads. The bulb can be eaten raw when peeled and sliced or shedded very thin. The bulb of the beetroot can be peeled, steamed, and then eaten warm with butter. Incorporate this heirloom vegetable as an ingredient in recipes, made into soup or shedded and used as a condiment. Beets can be kept in a root cellar environment for months for storage over winter, when not much is growing in the garden. Beets can be easily preserved with traditional canning methods. Pickled beets are a traditional food to many countries and can also be used to make wine. All seed comes to you in paper packets with basic planting instructions on the back.